Lightened Up Sweet Potato Pie | Renee's Kitchen Adventures

Friday, October 14, 2011

Lightened Up Sweet Potato Pie


While flying home this week, I was paging through the latest issue of Healthy Cooking, when the recipe for this delectable pie caught my eye...and although the nutritional stats were decent as it was written in the magazine, I knew I could swap out a few ingredients to make it even more diet friendly.   Lucky for me, I had some leftover sweet potato mash from a dinner I made last week already in the fridge and a Keebler, Ready Crust, Reduced Fat Graham Pie Crust in the pantry! If you cannot find the reduced fat pie crust, you can buy a regular one, but this will increase the point+ value by one per each slice. 

This pie will not disappoint.  It is a lovely twist on a traditional pumpkin pie and would be a great addition to your holiday table.  It is just spicy enough and not too sweet. It comes in at 6 points+ for a generous slice...which is 1/8th of a 9" crust.  Top it with a dollop of fat free cool whip if you like!




Lightened Up Sweet Potato Pie
adapted from Healthy Cooking


Servings - 8   Serving Size - 1/8th of pie   Points Plus per Serving - 6 points+
Calories - 218,   Total Fat - 3.6g,   Carb - 46.9g,   Protein - 4.1g,   Fiber - 0.8g

1 TBS eggbeaters
1 cup cooled and mashed sweet potato
1 cup skim milk
1/2 cup eggbeaters
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed 
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground clove

1.  Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  Brush inside of crust with 1 TBS eggbeaters.  Bake in oven for 6 - 8 min.  Allow to cool.  

2.  Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F.  In large bowl, whisk together sweet potato, milk, 1/2 cup eggbeaters, brown sugar, maple syrup, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves until smooth.  Pour mixture into prepared crust and bake in oven for 60 - 70 minutes, or until center is set.  Cool on wire rack.  Serve warm or cold. ( I liked it cold better)  Store uneaten pie in refrigerator. 

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I mentioned yesterday, that I was going to do a giveaway to celebrate MKA being on the blog scene for one year.  I racked my brains trying to think of the perfect thing to giveaway....and finally settled on a $25 gift card to Bed, Bath, and Beyond!  There are so many gadgets I love that make my life in the kitchen fun and easy, and where else can you find a huge assortment of fun kitchen gadgets?

If you would like to have a chance to win this prize...all you need to do is leave me a comment on this post telling me what your favorite kitchen gadget is OR what kitchen gadget you would like to get! 


For additional entries:  ( for each one, please leave a separate comment ) 

1.  Follow MKA on blogger or on Facebook, if you don't already do so, and leave me a separate comment letting me know you added MKA. 


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* I MUST be able to contact you to let you know you have won and so that your prize pack can be delivered.  If you do not have a blog that shows a contact email I can contact you on, please include an email in your comment and a name( you can write out the (at) and the (dot) to help avoid getting spam) or send me your email address through my email ( mykitchenadventures (at) yahoo (dot) com) and let me know who you are and which comment is yours. Anonymous comments will not be included in the contest, unless somewhere in the comment you have left me a name and contact information. Contest is open to all US and Canadian residents!  ( yup, Canada peeps...you can play too!!)

This giveaway will end on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8:00 pm EST.  Winners will be chosen at random and will be announced either that night or the following day. Winners must claim their prize within 24 hours of notification, or a new winner will be chosen. 
Good Luck!!




44 comments:

  1. My favorite kitchen gadget is my meat pounder. Since there is just 2 of us I can split a large chicken breast and make lovely thin cutlets. Looks like a lot more on our plate. I have made some of your lovely recipes and appreciate all your hard work. Thanks, Donnie

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  2. Yummm!!! Im always in for a graham cracker crust!! What a giveaway. I love spoonulas and my stand mixer!!

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  3. I love my rubber whisk!

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  5. I have never had sweet potato pie but it looks delicious!

    Congratulations on your blog anniversary! You do a great job with your posts and the recipes you share are wonderful!

    I have way too many fun kitchen gadgets to choose one favorite but I do love my chefs knife and use it every day. My little mini xoxo 4 tablespoon measuring cup is used all the time. What would I do without a garlic press and I must have rubber spatulas in a variety of sizes.

    Things on my want list are a pepper mill and a salt mill, large white platter, new water glasses and a new rice cooker.

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  7. i would get a pastry blender, somehow i lost mine!!

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  8. My favorite gadget, that completely changed the way I bake, is my dough scoop. I never had evenly sized cookies before I bought that lovely. Thanks so much for linking up at A Little Nosh!

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  10. My favorite gadget is my microplane hand held grater to grate fresh garlic and nutmeg.
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  11. I love my pizza cutter, which is used for everything around here. I do want some kitchen shears. Thanks.

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  13. My favorite gadget would be my microplane. I love the flavor of fresh grated nutmeg. I will be using it when I make this wonderful pie!!!

    Carol B
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  14. Hi, I Love your blog. Happy about the giveaway.
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  15. My fave kitchen gadget is definitely my kitchen aid mixer!

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  16. What a wonderful giveaway! I love Bed Bath and Beyong too. There are so many fun products in that store. My favorite kitchen gadget is strawberry huller. It's fun to use and I used it to hollow out cupcakes for fillings too. I love multi-function tools! :)

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  21. Hi Renee, this looks delicous and so perfect for the season! Have a great week.

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  22. Congratulations on your first anniversary of your blog! What a GREAT resource for all of us Weight Watchers! My favorite Kitchen Gadget is Lock and Lock containers. I've only had them for a few months, but I am truly surprised at how long my fruits/veggies stay fresh in them -- even my husband noticed! doglover584-widgets(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  23. Oh boy... just one favorite kitchen gadget?? :) Have to say lately it's my food processor. Hubby got me one for Christmas last year and it makes everything so much easier, especially when I have to shred a lot of cheese for a recipe!

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  29. I also follow you on FB. Thanks, Donnie

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  30. I would love love love one of those mini choppers! I had one and when I was out of town for work the hubby couldnt find the blade, so he got mad and threw they rest of the set away, when I got home he told me and I pointed to the blade sitting on the shelf right next to where my mini chopper used to be. *sigh* I LOVE your site and LOVE your recipes!!!

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  33. My favoorite kitchen gadget is my bread machine of course !!

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  38. My favorite kitchen gadget is my Magic Bullet...I use it every day for a smoothie. If I won the gift card I would have to buy a new ice cream scoop...I use it to fill muffin cups and broke mine today :(

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